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Comment Free speach == anonymous? (Score 1) 358

I dont get what beeing anonymous have to do with free speach.... No one have lost their free speach, they have just lost the right to say anything while no one knows who they are. I*m quites sure that most places harassing someone anonymously is not covvered by free speach if dont by mail or phone, why should it be online?

Comment Re:You know whats ironic? (Score 1) 345

Actually, Alaska and most of the continental US was purchased from various nations.

Manhattan was purchased for $24.00 from an Indian chief. Do you think buying something justifies it for legitimate ownership?

Yeah it dos. I just read an article about ny the other day, stating that what was paied(I thought it was 26$) was a legit price at the time. Anyways, if I discovered that at some point 400 years ago someone sold and bought the house I live in for a low sum, I'm not giving it to the descendants of the one who sold it for a to low price back then.

Comment Re:Uhm...? (Score 1) 268

I stopped using mcafee a long time ago, but I recently got a computer with the latest version preinstalled, and oh my what a difference it is. It dos no mess up my mail settings anymore, it dos not use excessive resources(I dos not notice any performance cuts even when the scan is running) and it seems to do every thing I used a lot of different free programs to do in the past. It is not as smooth as my linux computer, but for being vista, I'm so impressed I'll probably buy the full version once the free period runs out. The pricing for multiple computer where not that bad either which is good now that all the kids have their own computer,

Comment Re:Amiga 1000... (Score 2, Informative) 166

I think the important question here is how can they sue over a patent filed in 1987? I thought a patent where valid for 20 years... Also, I can not remember KDE without multiple desktops. How can you just sit on a patent waiting until someone breaks it, let em use if for 10-20 years then sue... Then again, I do not claim to understand the us patent system.

Comment Re:Mechanism of detection? (Score 1) 379

If I remember correctly, part of what a silence do is slowing down a bullet so that it dos not break the sound barrier. If a bullet travels faster than the sound, a sonic detector becomes useless except to protect a VIP holding a speech, like when the president talks to a crowd, monitors could be placed in the area, calculating flight path and move the target accordingly. FYI: This is slash ., so no, I did not read the article.. :p

Comment Re:Dear God! (Score 0, Troll) 435

Actualy, I have found that an old laptop with OpenSUSE is the perfect computer for the youngest.... Many of the kid games are easier to get going in wine than on a windows computer where ther dont have admin access... Why on erth would a 7 year old need admin access on my computer? A Restricted user acount should do just fine, but alas.

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